Rhode Island General Laws
Chapter 44-18 - Sales and Use Taxes — Liability and Computation
Section 44-18-25. - Presumption that sale is for storage, use, or consumption — Resale certificate.

§ 44-18-25. Presumption that sale is for storage, use, or consumption — Resale certificate.
It is presumed that all gross receipts are subject to the sales tax, and that the use of all tangible personal property, or prewritten computer software delivered electronically or by load and leave, or vendor-hosted prewritten computer software, or specified digital products, or services as defined in § 44-18-7.3, are subject to the use tax, and that all tangible personal property, or prewritten computer software delivered electronically or by load and leave, or vendor-hosted prewritten computer software, or specified digital products, or services as defined in § 44-18-7.3, sold or in processing or intended for delivery or delivered in this state is sold or delivered for storage, use, or other consumption in this state, until the contrary is established to the satisfaction of the tax administrator. The burden of proving the contrary is upon the person who makes the sale and the purchaser, unless the person who makes the sale takes from the purchaser a certificate to the effect that the purchase was for resale. The certificate shall contain any information and be in the form that the tax administrator may require.
History of Section.P.L. 1947, ch. 1887, art. 2, § 27; G.L. 1956, § 44-18-25; P.L. 2006, ch. 246, art. 30, § 9; P.L. 2011, ch. 151, art. 19, § 24; P.L. 2012, ch. 241, art. 21, § 3; P.L. 2018, ch. 47, art. 4, § 10; P.L. 2019, ch. 88, art. 5, § 9.

Structure Rhode Island General Laws

Rhode Island General Laws

Title 44 - Taxation

Chapter 44-18 - Sales and Use Taxes — Liability and Computation

Section 44-18-1. - Short title.

Section 44-18-2. - Declaration of necessity.

Section 44-18-3. - Applicability of definitions.

Section 44-18-4. - “Sales tax” defined.

Section 44-18-5. - “Use tax” defined.

Section 44-18-6. - Person defined.

Section 44-18-7. - Sales defined.

Section 44-18-7.1. - Additional definitions.

Section 44-18-7.2. - Sales tax holiday definitions.

Section 44-18-7.3. - Services defined.

Section 44-18-8. - Retail sale or sale at retail defined.

Section 44-18-9. - “Storage” defined.

Section 44-18-10. - “Use” defined.

Section 44-18-11. - Storage or use for export.

Section 44-18-12. - “Sale price” defined.

Section 44-18-12.1. - “Additional measure subject to tax”.

Section 44-18-13. - Gross receipts defined.

Section 44-18-14. - “Business” defined.

Section 44-18-15. - “Retailer” defined.

Section 44-18-15.1. - “Promoter” and “show” defined — Duty of promoter to collect tax.

Section 44-18-15.2. - “Remote seller” defined — Collection of sales and use tax by remote seller.

Section 44-18-16. - Tangible property defined.

Section 44-18-17. - “State” defined.

Section 44-18-18. - Sales tax imposed.

Section 44-18-18.1. - Local meals and beverage tax.

Section 44-18-19. - Collection of sales tax by retailer.

Section 44-18-19.1. - Direct Pay Permit.

Section 44-18-20. - Use tax imposed.

Section 44-18-21. - Liability for use tax.

Section 44-18-22. - Collection of use tax by retailer.

Section 44-18-23. - “Engaging in business” defined.

Section 44-18-24. - Collection by retailer of use tax on interstate sales.

Section 44-18-25. - Presumption that sale is for storage, use, or consumption — Resale certificate.

Section 44-18-26. - Tax on retailer’s use of merchandise.

Section 44-18-26.1. - “Demonstration boat” defined.

Section 44-18-27. - Tax on rental income to retailer.

Section 44-18-28. - Resale of fungible goods from commingled mass.

Section 44-18-29. - Repealed.

Section 44-18-30. - Gross receipts exempt from sales and use taxes.

Section 44-18-30A. - Exemption or credit where sales or use taxes were paid in other jurisdictions.

Section 44-18-30B. - Exemption from sales tax for sales by writers, composers, artists — Findings.

Section 44-18-30C. - Exemption from or stabilization of sales and use taxes for municipal economic development zones — West Warwick.

Section 44-18-30D. - Repealed.

Section 44-18-30.1. - Application for certificate of exemption — Fees.

Section 44-18-31. - Exemption of sales to federal government.

Section 44-18-32. - Sales to federal contractors.

Section 44-18-33. - Sales to common carrier for use outside state.

Section 44-18-34. - Exemption from use tax of property subject to sales tax.

Section 44-18-35. - Property purchased from federal government.

Section 44-18-36. - Property held prior to 1947 — Property of nonresidents — Extension of sales tax exemptions to use tax.

Section 44-18-36.1. - Hotel tax.

Section 44-18-37. - Additional to other taxes.

Section 44-18-38. - Severability.

Section 44-18-39. - Repealed.

Section 44-18-40. - Exemption for buses, trucks and trailers in interstate commerce.

Section 44-18-40.1. - Exemption for certain energy products.